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Science
[Via NYTBR.] When each side wants to believe certain scientific conclusions for extra-scientific reasons, skepticism is the better part of rigor. …
Culture
The aim of the study, called “The Geography of Buzz,” said Elizabeth Currid, one of its authors, was “to be able to quantify and understand, …
[Via NYT.] Wallace was often accused, even by his admirers, of having a weakness for what Nabokov once referred to as “the doubtful splendors …
[via Edge: PRESSING QUESTIONS FOR OUR CENTURY: A Talk with AC Grayling.] Science is the greatest achievement of human history so far. I say …
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